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| "He Never Believed That She Loved Him Best" | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
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| "Nuclear Family" | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
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| "Unidentifiable Remains" | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
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| "Children Are Like Puppets" | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
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| "Betty Was HER Horse" | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
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| "Was He Happy?" | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
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| "Their Faces Said It All" | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
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| "What If . . . " | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
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| "Guns As Toys" | michelle saffran 2015 6" x 6" black and white print from scanned negative |
Along
with scrapbooks, albums and loose snapshots I inherited dozens of
glassine envelopes full of 120mm film negatives. Negatives without their positives, placeholders for what is absent, symbolic on many levels.
These exposed pieces of silver halide reference how, over time, an original event or person is detached from its source and becomes a trigger for a memory or speculation. The reversal of white to black, and black to white, in a transparent
yet reflective surface confuses the eye and challenges the mind.
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